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- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (how did nobody say this yet?! dirty, gritty, and great.)
- Tenebre (my favourite Argento. The soundtrack by Goblin is awesommme)
- Maniac (kinda want to see the remake, I'm sure it won't compare at all to the original. Joe Spinell was so perfectly creepy)
- The New York Ripper (Pretty good giallo film. Killer makes phone calls using a Donald Duck voice. Chillng)
- Zombi 2 aka. Zombie (the scene where the zombies are coming up out of the ground, so great)
- Short Night of The Glass Dolls
- The Black Cat (classic)
- The Raven (see above)
- White Zombie (ditto)
- Audition
- Sleepaway Camp
- The Prowler (1981)

Is Straw Dogs considered a horror movie? Not really, I guess. Good movie though.

A horror franchise question... do you guys prefer Freddy or Jason? Or Michael Myers?

I left out Nosferatu (1922 version) and I like the Herzog version a lot too.
Also .. The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari and also the 1932 German movie Vampyr - both stand up really well today, particularly Vampyr.

I forgot about Let the Right One In, that one was great. I watched Evil Dead 2 over the weekend and it was stupid and annoying and i'm not sure why there's such a cult following over it. I'm going to watch Army of Darkness sometime soon but my hopes are low.

I liked Insidious. I don't think it's comparable to the Excorsim in legacy, however I found a lot of the shots 'inspired...' Plus the one scene where the demonthingguy is lurking in the corner of the room actually managed to freak me out, which is rare.

I thought the concept was sort of original. At least it changed pace in the middle of the movie, before the whole blahblah demon-child thing got boring. But then all the old timey dusty shit in the second half of the movie was just recycled cool bits from Dead Silence without the awful puppeterring and plot and bad CGI. The entire second half of this movie just seemed like a final draft of Dead Silence, which probably shouldn't have ever been released. You don't need ratings and reviews to figure out that movie sucks, you just need to kind of sit down and think about what you're doing. Jesus Christ. It sort of makes sense to just reuse all the costumes from your last movie and change the lighting because it was sort of a low budget film.

Actually, isn't the old woman in Insidious wearing the exact same costume as Mary Shaw from Dead Silence? Are they supposed to be part of the same film series? What the fuck?

Man I am right when I'm right.

The second one will be terrible but if they're lucky they can drag it out 13 more films like Saw and everyone will watch it for no reason and then I'll have the worst Halloween ever for ten more years in a row.

James Wan has "moments." Not in the spotlight, but in his own movies. Everything else is a semi-cohesive mess. Leigh Whannel just wants to be IN movies, not write them. You can tell because he doesn't even write any depth into his own characters. Like, the characters he tries to play. He's also really fucking bad at acting, and a generally unlikable kind of dude. In Saw he just did that whole "Whoa I can't believe it!" face. His acting only improved in this by not doing that face and then transitioning into that face for the remainder of the film. Was this the one with the glow in the dark scary as fuck painting though, or was that Orphan? No, that was Orphan. I liked that one. Neither of them had anything to do with it.

Speaking of movies I liked, I thought House of the Devil was an absolute cinematic masterpiece. Absolutely a flawless tribute to 70's horror films in pacing, atmosphere, and out of left field occult theme. Then what the absolute bleeding shit was The Inkeepers?! Oh my god

Yeah I love Insidious. I am surprised that people think it's unoriginal, I felt like there was some real originality there. I watched it again the day before yesterday and some bits still creeped me out, like the face behind Patrick Wilson. I think it's pretty hard to make a new, fresh haunting film but the astral projection element was enough newness for me. I love it so much actually, I love when he goes in to The Further, I love the main demon-ghost-guy. I love Patrick Wilson. There's a lovely easiness about him and the way he acts, I just enjoy him in everything.

Leigh Whannel just wants to be IN movies, not write them. You can tell because he doesn't even write any depth into his own characters. Like, the characters he tries to play. He's also really fucking bad at acting, and a generally unlikable kind of dude. In Saw he just did that whole "Whoa I can't believe it!" face.

I love the way Jason chases and kills his victims. Reminds me of Halloween in some respect but then Jason is a total neanderthal about the killings.
I have yet to watch all the Friday the 13th movies.

The way Jason hunts is almost the polar opposite to how Michael functions...

Yeah it is. I know why it reminds me of Halloween, it's the way they shoot the film. The way they follow Michael or Jason as the victim is screaming hysterically trying to get away and it seems like for the longest time that the killer is not even moving fast enough to catch up to them.

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